Hermes Glacier is a glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

 8 nautical miles (15 km) long, flowing west into Weyerhaeuser Glacier

Weyerhaeuser Glacier

Weyerhaeuser Glacier is a large glacier flowing north into Mercator Ice Piedmont close west of Mobiloil Inlet, on the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. This glacier lies in the area first explored from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, but it was first clearly...

 in southern Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. Surveyed in January 1960 by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) who discovered the glacier after several fruitless attempts to find a route out of the mountains east of Earnshaw Glacier

Earnshaw Glacier

Earnshaw Glacier is a glacier 10 nautical miles long, flowing northward to the east of Norwood Scarp and entering Maitland Glacier to the south of Werner Peak, in eastern Antarctic Peninsula. Photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service on September 28, 1940. Surveyed by the...

. It provided an ideal "road" back to known country and was therefore named after Hermes, the god of roads in Greek mythology. This name by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) initiated the idea of naming other features in this area after Greek gods.